OpenData Validation Service
The project aims at providing a web app to check for "*Openness*" of data catalogs and individual entries.
### Howto:
* Define and implement metrics for "OD best practices“ features and aggregate the values. The (french) work from [OpQuast](https://checklists.opquast.com/opendata/workshop/ "Open Quality Standards") and TimBL's 5-star notation are probably good starting points for that task. Any suggestion is welcome.
* Define API to collect input values of a given catalog/entry to perform metrics computation.
* Develop several extractors/scrappers for, let say CKAN repositories (DataCatalogs, DataHub,...) and several well-known specific OD platforms to bootstrap and evaluate the process
* Develop a downgraded generic extractor for *any* platform
* Develop extra features, such like statistics, maps, search facilities, etc. to highlight and promote indexed data sources.
* Expose API to offer developers the ability to develop their own extractors and connect new data sources.
To do that, we are actually a team of 6 to 8 CS developers/researchers.
We aim at launching the beta version at Nantes OpenData Days, that will be held from 22 to 25 May 2012 in Nantes, France.
One of the satellite events of the NODDs is [http://sites.google.com/site/opendata2012/](http://sites.google.com/site/opendata2012/ "WOD-2012").
Please, let me know whether you think this project would be valuable for the OpenData movement and, second,
whether OKFN could support the project or not.
Sincerely,
Guillaume Raschia.